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INVdo you wanna play with it ?
MOTcan you put that on your hand ?
INV*INV: what do you think the kitty would think of the birdie ?
MOTyou want me to put it on ?
CHIyeah .
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CHIxxx .
MOT+< that one isn't very, but that's a female cardinal .
MOT*MOT: and there have been a pair of them, that are trying to find a nesting place .
MOTand that poor bird thinks, I think, that our porch would be a good place .
INVuh oh .
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CHItwo, two .
CHIpoem, poem book .
MOT*MOT: yes your poem book has pictures of birds, that has a picture of a cardinal .
CHIdaddy .
MOTonly the daddy cardinal .
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CHIdaddy .
MOTonly the daddy cardinal .
MOT*MOT: poor bird, he's gonna knock himself out [% The bird is continually flying into the window of the porch] .
CHIright, trying to go through it .
MOTI thought that I'd scare her away xxx .
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CHIpoems .
MOToh, her poems book .
MOT*MOT: that's one of the great hits of this particular week .
MOTwhat is that Susanna ?
MOTit's something you eat for breakfast .
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CHIegg .
MOTegg .
INV*INV: that's what little birdies come out of .
CHIbirdie .
CHIxxx .
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MOTwhat about chickens ?
CHIegg .
MOT*MOT: they come out of eggs .
CHIout eggs . [+ V]
CHIhere . [+ V]
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MOToh !
CHIbirdie .
MOT*MOT: what kind of bird ?
CHIduckie .
MOTduckie .
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MOTthose are for little kids .
CHI&=laugh a:h [% What she's doing is imitating an elephant's trumpeting noise] .
MOT*MOT: that's right, they all kind of a:h !
CHInose . [+ V]
MOTwith his trunk, with his nose, waves it around .
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CHIxx .
CHIxx .
MOT*MOT: yes you have one of those, we have one just like that .
INVreally ?
MOTupstairs from when you were a baby .
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MOTthere's a cardinal .
CHIwhat is this ? [+ V]
MOT*MOT: it's another kind of bird, called a meadowlark .
MOTthat's a bird too .
MOTwhat's that ?
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MOTyou've never seen one .
CHIplane .
MOT*MOT: it's a kind of a plane .
CHIwhat is it ? [+ V]
MOTdo you know what that is ?
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CHIplane .
MOTwell it's like a plane .
MOT*MOT: daddy just showed you one of those up in the sky, this weekend .
CHIyeah .
MOTyeah .
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MOTsqueak, squeak .
CHI&=laugh .
MOT*MOT: you can make all of them squeak at the same time that way .
CHImommy .
MOTyes .
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MOThidden away, where nobody'd be .
CHI0 [=! laughs and sighs] .
MOT*MOT: watch, and you'll see them come out of the hive .
MOTone, two, three four, five .
MOTbzz .
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CHIyeah .
MOTChild, that's not a dog .
INV*INV: what kind of noise do hedgehogs make, besides squeaks ?
MOTyou tell me !
CHIduck .
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INVhere's another red bird .
MOTthat's right, there's another red bird .
MOT*MOT: do you know what kind of bird that is ?
CHIjay .
MOTa jay, that's right .
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MOTisn't he heavy ?
CHIxx xx .
MOT*MOT: you could bring some of your books to show Investigator .
MOTor you could finally write with that pen .
CHImommy .
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MOTwhat are you doing down there ?
INVtrying to stand on your head !
MOT*MOT: one of these days you're gonna go right over in a somersault Child .
MOT# upside down .
MOTupside down, on the floor .
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MOTthat's a hard book .
MOTwhat book would you like to look at ?
INV*INV: all of them .
MOTall of them, please, all at once .
CHIa(b)c's .
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MOTwhat book would you like to look at ?
INVall of them .
MOT*MOT: all of them, please, all at once .
CHIa(b)c's .
MOTabc's .
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MOTI thought this was the one you were talking about .
MOTwhat a good lunch .
MOT*MOT: are you more interested in the babies [% CHI is looking at a flyer that came from a box of Pampers] ?
CHIxx .
INVyeah .
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CHIboot [% Tape player is turned off and tape played back for CHI] .
INVxxx [% Tape back on now] .
INV*INV: lots of red birds .
MOTthere are the red birds .
MOTChild .
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MOTjust, just before that happens, his momma said +"/.
MOT+" don't use scissors, don't eat toothpaste, don't go bumping down the staircase, you're going to hurt yourself .
MOT*MOT: and there he is doing all of those things .
MOThe disappeared one morning when he should have been in bed .
MOTshe found him sleeping soundly +...
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MOTdo you know what these are ?
MOTthose are trees .
MOT*MOT: but they don't look like most of the trees in our book because these are pine trees .
INVlike Christmas trees .
MOTlike Christmas trees, that's right .
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CHIxx hair ?
MOTshe has hair .
MOT*MOT: she's standing on top of his head .
CHIaba@c [= Saab or Mazda] .
MOTthat's right, it's a car .